So maybe I’ve missed it – my friends and roommates tell me that I don’t have the “power of look” – but I just can’t find a way to add a tea or company to the site. I’ve looked everywhere I can think of. Maybe it’s because I’m a brand new member that I can’t do this?

I get most of my tea from Indigo Tea Company but right now only two of their teas are available for rating and commenting. I’d love to add more! There are also a few tea shops in my town (Missoula, MT) that I’d like to have on the site.

So if members are not currently allowed to add teas or companies to the site then I’d like to suggest this as a feature. And I support the option of flagging duplicate entries that was suggested earlier. It would be a great help should member submission of new teas be instituted.

There’s a search box on the far right of the black bar at the top of the screen. Type the tea you want to log. If the tea isn’t logged, it’ll take you to a page that says “Hmm, we’re not familiar with that tea yet. Want to help others find it in the future? Add it to our database.” Just click that link to put in the tea info.

Thanks for explaining that Cofftea. Also, you can’t add a company to Steepster without adding a tea from that company. So when you add a new tea from a company that isn’t yet in the system, that company will automatically be added.

Genuine comments/discussion/improvements on someone is great, but instead of having post a new comment just to say “I agree!” could there be a little box by the reply button that simply says “+1” and counts how many times the button has been clicked (make it so a user can only log “+1” once) so we don’t get 28 “I agree!” comments?

iPhone app would be fantastic. Also, I’m having trouble with the little slidey bars on my iPhone display. Trying to slide the marker is interpreted as trying to move the page around on the screen. Some other method of making the ratings would possibly work better — numerical 1-10 or radio buttons or something might be an idea to get past the slider bar issue.

The reason why it’s like that is because tasting notes on the tea page are listed by our popularity algorithm. We think this is best because on the tea page you want to see to best/most popular/most relevant tasting notes. We believe the best place to see tasting notes in chronological order is on a user’s tealog, so you can understand the tasting notes from the user’s perspective.